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A proposed oral penalty (Rousse)

Posted on November 5, 2025 by Dreamaticus

EH was away so I was left to chaperone the learned dignitary who had flown in from the US to deliver a guest lecture to the final year students. She was the only British academic to have ever won the … Continue reading →

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Three-legged dogs in the classroom (Rousse)

Posted on April 17, 2019 by Dreamaticus

The students chose their modules using a manual ‘course sorter’. This was an enormous sectioned white roller blind. The Chinese contingent was extremely disappointed not to be able to select a particular combination of modules. However, this was not my … Continue reading →

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Students love their naked teacher (Rousse)

Posted on December 5, 2017 by Dreamaticus

Discussing the module in my kitchen, the students and I worked out that we all fell in love around week 7. When we moved the conversation into the hall I started to feel chilly, so I excused myself to pop … Continue reading →

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Academic highs and lows (Rousse)

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Dreamaticus

There it was in print: my first co-authored paper with BC. Best of all, when BC read it out loud to me from the pages of the journal it was the sweetest bedtime story ever. Granted it was only a … Continue reading →

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A presentation on Internet portals (Rousse)

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Dreamaticus

As we left the lecture hall PC said that he would see me in room 4 by the entrance for the next session. I advised him to give it a miss: I was due to be presenting on Internet portals, … Continue reading →

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A useless sabbatical, a stray student, and a delicious brand of cell phone (Rousse)

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Dreamaticus

My boss pass me a typed sheet of paper. This stated that I had been granted a sabbatical between 29th April and 31st August 2015. It was already the end of June. What use was this to me? Then the … Continue reading →

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Panel deals drugs at University interview (Rousse)

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Dreamaticus

I had been primed to ask the interview candidate about three publications that he used when teaching the Information Delivery module. One of these was co-authored by me, with the candidate himself. This was just one of the strange things … Continue reading →

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“Innovations” in knowledge management teaching (Rousse)

Posted on June 15, 2014 by Dreamaticus

What great excitement was this? My colleagues had just discovered “knowledge management” (KM) and one was under instruction to develop a series of linked modules on the topic so that all graduates would be well-versed in both KM theory and … Continue reading →

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Rousse’s presentation skills are pushed to the limit

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I gathered the print-outs of my typed notes and turned up at the classroom as planned to give the students a quick run-down on the third year placement module. Once inside, however, I found my boss and a couple of … Continue reading →

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A wasted trip to the University of Birmingham’s Muirhead Tower (Rousse)

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I found my timetable on a scrunched up piece of brown paper in the bottom of my handbag. I’d looked at it so infrequently that I was unsure as to which way it read: were those the hours across the … Continue reading →

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